J.E. Bygate, A.R.C.A.
WITH FORTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
London George Bell & Sons 1905
First PublishedMarch 1899Second Edition, RevisedSeptember 1900 Reprinted1905
The Riverside Press Limited, Edinburgh
GENERAL PREFACE
This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to the great English Cathedralswith accurate and well illustrated guide-books at a popular price. The aim of each writer has beento produce a work compiled with sufficient knowledge and scholarship to be of value to thestudent of Archæology and History, and yet not too technical in language for the use of anordinary visitor or tourist.To specify all the authorities which have been made use of in each case would be difficult andtedious in this place. But amongst the general sources of information which have been almostinvariably found useful are:—(1) the great county histories, the value of which, especially inquestions of genealogy and local records, is generally recognised; (2) the numerous papers byexperts which appear from time to time in the Transactions of the Antiquarian and ArchæologicalSocieties; (3) the important documents made accessible in the series issued by the Master of theRolls; (4) the well-known works of Britton and Willis on the English Cathedrals; and (5) the veryexcellent series of Handbooks to the Cathedrals originated by the late Mr John Murray; to whichthe reader may in most cases be referred for fuller detail, especially in reference to the historiesof the respective sees.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
As much as possible of this brief description of Durham is from the personal acquaintance of the writer with the building. Yet many authorities have, of necessity, been consulted in its preparation, notably a pamphlet by the Rev. Canon W. Greenwell, and the "County of Durham," by J.R. Boyle, F.S.A. Thanks are also due to the authorities of the Cathedral for having freely
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